LLM Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Large Language Model (LLM)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring LLM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited LLM over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 310 476
Rank change year-on-year +97 +166 -
Contract jobs citing LLM 91 35 1
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.92% 0.23% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.26% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 18 1
10th Percentile £400 £553 -
25th Percentile £458 £575 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £779 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year +29.79% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £881 £625 £688
90th Percentile - £690 -
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +4.17% -11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £22.05 - -
25th Percentile £23.25 - -
Median hourly rate £25.50 - -
75th Percentile £52.25 - -
90th Percentile £68.15 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

LLM falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

LLM
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing LLM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

LLM trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing LLM.

LLM daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

LLM
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing LLM over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

LLM daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

LLM
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing LLM.

LLM hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

LLM
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing LLM over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

LLM hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.49%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.30%) Apache
3 2 (2.20%) Confluence
4 1 (1.10%) IBM Domino
4 1 (1.10%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.10%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 22 (24.18%) Azure
2 20 (21.98%) AWS
3 10 (10.99%) GCP
4 8 (8.79%) GitHub
4 8 (8.79%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.49%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (4.40%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.40%) Vertex AI
8 3 (3.30%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon Bedrock
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (2.20%) Azure AI
9 2 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.20%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.20%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.20%) Firebase
9 2 (2.20%) SaaS
9 2 (2.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) MQTT
1 1 (1.10%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.40%) Hadoop
1 4 (4.40%) Power BI
2 3 (3.30%) Big Data
2 3 (3.30%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.30%) MySQL
2 3 (3.30%) Tableau
3 1 (1.10%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.10%) Pinecone
3 1 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.10%) Redis
3 1 (1.10%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 22 (24.18%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.40%) MLflow
3 3 (3.30%) Git
4 2 (2.20%) JIRA
5 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.10%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.10%) GitLab
General
1 34 (37.36%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (32.97%) Banking
3 27 (29.67%) Investment Banking
4 18 (19.78%) Organisational Skills
5 17 (18.68%) Social Skills
6 15 (16.48%) Finance
7 8 (8.79%) Front Office
7 8 (8.79%) Public Sector
8 4 (4.40%) Retail
9 3 (3.30%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.30%) Marketing
10 2 (2.20%) French Language
10 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.10%) Dutch Language
11 1 (1.10%) Games
11 1 (1.10%) German Language
11 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.10%) Italian Language
11 1 (1.10%) Military
Job Titles
1 45 (49.45%) Developer
2 26 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 26 (28.57%) Python Developer
3 22 (24.18%) Gen AI Developer
4 10 (10.99%) Data Scientist
5 9 (9.89%) Lead
6 7 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (7.69%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 7 (7.69%) Software Developer
7 5 (5.49%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
8 4 (4.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Senior
9 3 (3.30%) Angular Developer
9 3 (3.30%) GCP Developer
9 3 (3.30%) Java Developer
9 3 (3.30%) Platform Engineer
10 2 (2.20%) Consultant
10 2 (2.20%) HTML Developer
10 2 (2.20%) Project Manager
10 2 (2.20%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (31.87%) React
2 28 (30.77%) FastAPI
3 22 (24.18%) .NET
3 22 (24.18%) Django
4 10 (10.99%) TensorFlow
5 9 (9.89%) PyTorch
6 6 (6.59%) Play Framework
7 5 (5.49%) AngularJS
7 5 (5.49%) LangChain
7 5 (5.49%) Next.js
7 5 (5.49%) scikit-learn
8 4 (4.40%) CSS
8 4 (4.40%) HTML
8 4 (4.40%) Hugging Face
8 4 (4.40%) Node.js
8 4 (4.40%) Pandas
9 3 (3.30%) JSON
9 3 (3.30%) NumPy
9 3 (3.30%) Regular Expression
10 2 (2.20%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.48%) Algorithms
2 9 (9.89%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.30%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.10%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.10%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.10%) NHS
5 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.10%) Linux
1 1 (1.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (87.91%) Artificial Intelligence
2 64 (70.33%) Machine Learning
3 52 (57.14%) Generative AI
4 38 (41.76%) Agile
5 36 (39.56%) DevOps
6 34 (37.36%) CI/CD
7 30 (32.97%) Data Science
8 27 (29.67%) SDLC
9 22 (24.18%) Use Case
10 21 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (23.08%) Technical Analysis
11 14 (15.38%) Analytics
12 13 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (13.19%) Data Engineering
13 12 (13.19%) Natural Language Processing
14 9 (9.89%) Business Intelligence
14 9 (9.89%) Decision-Making
14 9 (9.89%) MLOps
14 9 (9.89%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
15 7 (7.69%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 70 (76.92%) Python
2 35 (38.46%) SQL
3 26 (28.57%) Java
4 25 (27.47%) TypeScript
5 20 (21.98%) C#
6 8 (8.79%) JavaScript
7 7 (7.69%) Scala
8 2 (2.20%) Go
8 2 (2.20%) PHP
8 2 (2.20%) R
8 2 (2.20%) Ruby
8 2 (2.20%) Rust
9 1 (1.10%) Bash
9 1 (1.10%) C++
9 1 (1.10%) Clojure
9 1 (1.10%) Elixir
9 1 (1.10%) Haskell
9 1 (1.10%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 13 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.19%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.59%) Degree
4 5 (5.49%) Master's Degree
5 3 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.30%) PhD
6 2 (2.20%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.10%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.20%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.10%) GDPR
2 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.10%) QA
2 1 (1.10%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 25 (27.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (29.67%) Kubernetes
2 21 (23.08%) Ansible
3 5 (5.49%) Terraform
4 2 (2.20%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.10%) Grafana
5 1 (1.10%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 12 (13.19%) Databricks
2 8 (8.79%) Google
3 6 (6.59%) OpenAI
4 4 (4.40%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.20%) Oracle
6 1 (1.10%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.10%) Okta